Our historian author speakers illuminate the biographies of some of the most significant figures in history, revealing larger perspectives on the past so that we may better shape the future.
Joseph J. Ellis Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, presidential historian, and author of Founding Brothers and American Dialogue
Isabel Wilkerson Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste
Ta-Nehisi Coates #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Between the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in Power
Simon Sebag Montefiore Noted historian and international bestselling author of Jerusalem and The Romanovs
David Nasaw Award-winning biographer and New York Times-bestselling author of The Patriarch and Andrew Carnegie
T.J. Stiles Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, American historian and author of Custer's Trials
Neil Swidey Award-winning journalist and author of Trapped Under the Sea, and specialist in risk and safety
Lawrence Wright Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower and staff writer for The New Yorker